A marketing executive is investigating whether this year’s advertising campaign has resulted in greater mean sales compared with last year’s mean sales. The executive collects a random sample of 100 customer orders from a large population of orders and calculates the sample mean and sample standard deviation.

The manager of a branch office of banco mexicali observed that during peak hours an average of 20 customers arrives per hour and that there is an average of 6 customers in the branch office at any time. how long does the average customer spend waiting in line and being serviced?

Needs to schedule the staffing of the center. it is open from 8am until midnight. larry has monitored the usage of the center at various times of the day and determined that the following number of computer consultants are required: time of dayminimum number of consultants required to be on duty8 am-noon4noon-4 pm84pm-8pm108pm-midnight6 two types of computer consultants can be hired: full-time and part-time. the full- time consultants work for eight consecutive hours in any of the shifts: morning (8am- 4pm), afternoon (noon-8pm) and evening (4pm-midnight). full-time consultants are paid $14 per hour. part-time consultants can be hired to work any of the four shifts listed in the table. part-time consultants are paid $12 per hour. an additional requirement is that during every time period, there must be at least two full-time consultants on duty for every part-time consultant on duty. larry would like to determine how many full-time and part-time consultants should work each shift to meet the above requirements at the minimum possible cost. formulate this as an lp problem. you must define your variables clearly

Which stage of group development involves members introducing themselves to each other?